Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel

Greg KH
2005-12-03T22:30:05Z

On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 11:21:38PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Dec 2005, David Ranson wrote:
>
> > Steven Rostedt wrote:
> >
> > >udev ;)
> > >
> > >http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2005/Dec/0180.html
> > >
> > >
> > Ahh OK .. I don't use it, so wouldn't have been affected. That's one
> > userspace interface broken during the series, does anyone have any more?
>
> Not only that, udev is default for instance in recent SUSE Linux
> releases, so whether to use or not to use it is a major effort.

And if you use SUSE releases, use OpenSuSE to keep up to date with all
of the needed kernel programs for the latest kernels. Same with Fedora,
Debian, or Gentoo. They all keep up to date quite well.

thanks,

greg k-h